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The History of Parliament Trust REVIEW of ACTIVITIES in the YEAR 2013-14 The History of Parliament Trust REVIEW OF ACTIVITIES IN THE YEAR 2013-14 Randolph Churchill campaigning in Devonport Dockyard during the General Election campaign of 1950. Reproduced by kind permission of Plymouth and West Devon Record Office. - 1 - Objectives and Activities of the History of Parliament Trust The History of Parliament is a major academic project to create a scholarly reference work describing the members, constituencies and activities of the Parliament of England and the United Kingdom. The volumes either published or in preparation cover the House of Commons from 1386 to 1868 and the House of Lords from 1603 to 1832. They are widely regarded as an unparalleled source for British political, social and local history. The volumes consist of detailed studies of elections and electoral politics in each constituency, and of closely researched accounts of the lives of everyone who was elected to Parliament in the period, together with surveys drawing out the themes and discoveries of the research and adding information on the operation of Parliament as an institution. The History has published 21,420 biographies and 2,831 constituency surveys in ten sets of volumes (41 volumes in all). They deal with 1386-1421, 1509-1558, 1558-1603, 1604- 29, 1660-1690, 1690-1715, 1715-1754, 1754-1790, 1790-1820 and 1820-32. All of these articles are now available on www.historyofparliamentonline.org . The History’s staff of professional historians is currently researching the House of Commons in the periods 1422-1504, 1640-1660, and 1832-1868, and the House of Lords in the periods 1603-60 and 1660-1832. The three Commons projects currently in progress will contain a further 7,251 biographies of members of the House of Commons and 861 constituency surveys. With what is now published and in progress, the History covers 414 years of the history of the House of Commons. In addition, the House of Lords projects are currently working on 693 biographies covering 1660-1715, and 458 covering 1603-1660. Since 1995, the History has been funded principally by the two Houses of Parliament. It is based close to its original host, the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. It was founded before the Second World War, the brainchild of Josiah Wedgwood MP, a Labour parliamentarian and minister, and revived after the war when a number of the greatest British historians of the day, including Sir Lewis Namier, Sir Frank Stenton and Sir John Neale, were involved in its re-establishment. The project is governed by its Trustees, who are mainly Members and Officers of both Houses of Parliament. The quality of the project's research and writing is monitored by an Editorial Board of historians. For further details see the History’s website at www.historyofparliamentonline.org. - 2 - Review of activities in the year 2013-14 HIGHLIGHTS Research Over the year, the History’s staff and some external authors compiled new articles, containing over million words, and revised. One project is approaching publication in 2015, with two more now almost completely concerned with revision of past articles in preparation for publication. At the end of the second full year of the oral history project there are more than 100 completed interviews with former Members of Parliament, with more than half of them deposited and available to the public in the British Library. The project was marked with an exhibition of portraits of some of the interviewees in Portcullis House. The History obtained a grant of over £50,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to undertake an oral history project collecting memories of constituency politics in Devon since 1945: the project was well underway by the end of the year. Dissemination Programme The History of Parliament Online continues to attract high numbers of hits. New sections have been added for schools (including material which will enable schools to use the History more effectively) and for the oral history project The History’s blogs and Twitter accounts are now attracting a large number of followers, directing attention to the material on the website, both previously published and new articles. Outreach and Engagement Programme New academic collaborations in which the History was involved included the JISC- funded DiLiPad project, together with King’s College, London, the Institute of Historical Research and the Universities of Toronto and Amsterdam, concerned with the digitisation of parliamentary material; and the AHRC-Funded 'St Stephen's Chapel, Westminster: Visual and Political Culture, 1292-1941’. The History was a partner in a conference at Oxford on ‘Writing the History of Parliament’, and held a highly successful colloquium on ‘State Formation and the Long Parliament’ at Bloomsbury Square. The History’s regular annual lecture has continued to be popular, and entries to its annual competitions for schools have grown in number thanks to the new pages on the website specifically aimed at schools. - 3 - RESEARCH PROGRAMME With several of our projects now well into their revision phase, checking articles for final publication, the overall output of the History in terms of new articles and draft articles has gone down; but revision of pieces which in many cases were written a long time ago remains a substantial exercise. Altogether, the History’s staff and some external authors compiled 269 new articles, containing over a million words, and revised 1016 old ones. Below we describe some of the work that has emerged from each of the projects. The House of Commons, 1422-1461 This is one of the sections now actively revising articles for publication, its four staff completing 626 revisions, although they also wrote 9 new articles comprising over 28,000 words. Among the new pieces was Sir John Saville (d.1482), who sat for Yorkshire in 1450 and 1467, and was a leading retainer of the duke of York. The article shows how his dispute with an assertive new neighbour, Sir John Pilkington, brought serious disorder to Yorkshire in 1478 and how royal patronage could distort local power structures. Sir Robert Waterton (d.1475), son of a friend of Henry IV, looked destined for a prominent and successful career until the mid 1440s when he lost all his offices. He lived for another 30 years and it is probable that he suffered some sort of mental or physical collapse. One of the constituencies completed, Yorkshire, was the only county that maintained the tradition of returning only knights, perhaps to reduce competition for seats in a county with a large number of gentry qualified to sit by wealth. Many of its MPs took an active role in the civil war of 1459-61, mostly on the side of the duke of York and the Nevilles. The section also benefited from the work of Matthew Smith, a second year undergraduate history student from Royal Holloway College, University of London, who was attached to the section as an intern for a period of four weeks in July and August 2013. In consultation with the National Archives, he collated the National Archives’ catalogue listing of wills enrolled in the registers of the Prerogative Court of the archbishops of Canterbury (TNA class PROB11) with the older, and more reliable, lists published by the Harleian Society in the 19th century. He created an EXCEL spread-sheet covering the first four registers for the period 1383- 1460, encompassing some 2,200 individual entries. This spread-sheet has been added to the section’s repository of lists and indexes, and has also been made available to the National Archives for inclusion in its on-line catalogue. The House of Commons, 1640-1660 This section is also engaged principally in revising articles for publication, though they are also writing some of the most important of the members of the period, including John Pym. The section’s five staff completed 124 revisions over the year, and 6 new articles, comprising over 91,000 words. Among them were several of our articles on the powerful executive committees which handled business on behalf of the Long Parliament, such as The Committee for Advance of Money, established in November 1642 to provide ready money for the parliamentarian army through contributions and fines for those who defaulted. Under the chairmanship of William Strode I it played an important role in funding the army of the earl of Essex until April 1645. Later it became the fiefdom of the corrupt Independent politician, Lord Howard of Escrick. Among the Members who were completed during the period was Henry Marten, returned for Berkshire in 1640, the most openly republican member of the Long Parliament, expelled from the Commons in 1643 for vilifying the royal family, later an ally of the Levellers and leader of the radical Independents at Westminster, a regicide and one of the steersmen of the Rump Parliament. Another was Thomas Scot, a - 4 - ‘recruiter’ for Aylesbury, and a highly active member of the Commons and the Independent faction during the later 1640s. A regicide, he assumed the role of the Rump’s de facto secretary of state, with responsibility for managing its intelligence system, and was a key figure also in the Rump’s foreign policy in 1649-53 and 1659 The House of Commons, 1832-68 The five staff of the House of Commons 1832-68 section together with a growing number of external contributors produced 213 articles during the year, containing well over half a million words. Among the biographies and constituency articles were the following: John Benbow (1769-1855) was a septuagenarian attorney, whose claim to be independent of ‘any ministry or any party of men’ was qualified by his dependence on the patronage of the borough’s owner, Lord Ward.
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